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World Service,26 Mar 2025,26 mins

UK announces extra $2.8 bn for defence

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The UK announces an extra $2.8 billion to be spent on defence. The announcement was made as part of the UK Chancellors, Rachel Reeve’s, Spring Budget. At least twenty-four people have been killed in the deadliest forest fires in South Korea's history. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. And, In the US judges have blocked Universal Music Group's request to stop the AI company 'Anthropic' from using their song lyrics to train its AI mode

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